Jane EyreIntroduction by Diane Johnson • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre erupted onto the English literary scene, immediately winning the devotion of many of the world’s most renowned writers, including William Makepeace Thackeray, who declared it a work “of great genius.” Widely regarded as a revolutionary novel, Brontë’s masterpiece introduced the world to a radical new type of heroine, one whose defiant virtue and moral courage departed sharply from the more acquiescent and malleable female characters of the day. Passionate, dramatic, and surprisingly modern, Jane Eyre endures as one of the world’s most beloved novels. |
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... kind of material that provided later psychologists, especially Freud, with a key, or so they thought, to the unconscious symbolism of dreams and poetry. It is still our own response to this symbolism that gives the book its naked ...
... kind of material that provided later psychologists, especially Freud, with a key, or so they thought, to the unconscious symbolism of dreams and poetry. It is still our own response to this symbolism that gives the book its naked ...
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... kind. This reproach of my dependence had become a vague sing-song in my ear; very painful and crushing, but only half intelligible. Miss Abbot joined in:— “And you ought not to think yourself on an equality with the Misses Reed and ...
... kind. This reproach of my dependence had become a vague sing-song in my ear; very painful and crushing, but only half intelligible. Miss Abbot joined in:— “And you ought not to think yourself on an equality with the Misses Reed and ...
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... kind angels only Watch'd o'er the steps of a poor orphan child. “Yet distant and soft the night-breeze is blowing, Clouds there are none, and clear stars beam mild. God, in His mercy, protection is showing, Comfort and hope to the poor ...
... kind angels only Watch'd o'er the steps of a poor orphan child. “Yet distant and soft the night-breeze is blowing, Clouds there are none, and clear stars beam mild. God, in His mercy, protection is showing, Comfort and hope to the poor ...
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... kind aunt and cousins.” Again I paused; then bunglingly enounced: “But John Reed knocked me down, and my aunt shut me up in the red-room.” Mr. Lloyd a second time produced his snuff-box. “Don't you think Gateshead Hall a very beautiful ...
... kind aunt and cousins.” Again I paused; then bunglingly enounced: “But John Reed knocked me down, and my aunt shut me up in the red-room.” Mr. Lloyd a second time produced his snuff-box. “Don't you think Gateshead Hall a very beautiful ...
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... kind to you?” I shook my head: I could not see how poor people had the means of being kind; and then to learn to speak like them, to adopt their manners, to be uneducated, to grow up like one of the poor women I saw sometimes nursing ...
... kind to you?” I shook my head: I could not see how poor people had the means of being kind; and then to learn to speak like them, to adopt their manners, to be uneducated, to grow up like one of the poor women I saw sometimes nursing ...
Contents
Chapter Seven | |
Chapter Nine | |
Chapter Eleven | |
Chapter Twelve | |
Chapter Fourteen | |
Chapter Sixteen | |
Chapter Eighteen | |
Chapter Nineteen | |
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